Calolydella aureofacies Fleming & Wood

Fleming, AJ, Wood, D. Monty, Smith, M. Alex, Hallwachs, Winnie & Janzen, Daniel H, 2018, Revision of the Mesoamerican species of Calolydella Townsend (Diptera: Tachinidae) and description of twenty-three new species reared from caterpillars in Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, Biodiversity Data Journal 6, pp. 11223-11223 : 11223

Calolydella aureofacies Fleming & Wood sp. n.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0029582 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Manuel Pereira; individualID: DHJPAR0029582; individualCount: 1; sex: F; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: 08-SRNP-36592, ASHYM1003-09; Taxon: scientificName: Calolydellaaureofacies; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Calolydella; specificEpithet: aureofacies; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2016; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Cacao; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Sendero Ponderosa; verbatimElevation: 1060; verbatimLatitude: 10.9146; verbatimLongitude: -85.4626; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2016; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larvae of the geometrid moth, Cyclophora Janzen23; verbatimEventDate: 26-Sep-2008; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0029601 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Manuel Pereira; individualID: DHJPAR0029601; individualCount: 1; sex: F; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: 08-SRNP-36589, BOLD:AAH9540, ASHYM1022-09; Taxon: scientificName: Calolydellaaureofacies; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Calolydella; specificEpithet: aureofacies; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2016; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Cacao; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Sendero Ponderosa; verbatimElevation: 1060; verbatimLatitude: 10.9146; verbatimLongitude: -85.4626; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2016; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larvae of the geometrid moth, Cyclophora Janzen23; verbatimEventDate: 26-Sep-2008; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen

Description

Female: 6mm (Fig. 5). Head (Fig. 5b): frontal setae extending to base of postpedicel; fronto-orbital plate gold, sparsely setulose along upper half; parafacial almost entirely gold (>90% coverage); palps black basally. Thorax (Fig. 5a, c): gold on both dorsal and lateral surfaces; four regular thoracic vittae; postpronotum with three setae; 2:3 acrostichal setae; 2:3 dorsocentral setae; 2:3 intra-alar setae; 2:3 supra-alar setae; three katepisternal setae; anatergite with three or more hair-like setae, often in a small tuft; scutellar discal setae absent. Wing vein R4+5 with 5-7 setulae dorsally, extending almost to crossvein R-M. Abdomen (Fig. 5a): ground color black, typically with uninterrupted transverse marginal pollinose bands (these can sometimes appear interrupted by a thick median stripe under certain angles of light); both dorsal and ventral surfaces concolorous, silver; base of ST1+2 black lateroventrally; T3 with one pair of median marginal setae and one pair of discal setae; T4 with a pair of discal setae.

Male: not known at this time.

Diagnosis

Calolydella aureofacies can be distinguished from all other species of Calolydella by the following combination of traits: parafacial mostly gold, female palps black basally, anatergite with three or more hair-like setae, and scutellar discal setae absent.

Etymology

The specific epithet is derived from the Latin adjective "aurum", meaning gold, and "facies", meaning face, in reference to its gold parafacial and fronto-orbital plate.

Distribution

Costa Rica, ACG, Guanacaste Province, Sendero Ponderosa, 1060m.

Ecology

Calolydella aureofacies has been reared once from Cyclophora Janzen23 ( Lepidoptera : Geometridae ), in cloud forest.